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A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

and vnderstand the holy scriptures according to their owne iudgementes / diuersly as their wyttes ād studie are varyable / and euery one according to hys fantasye expoundeth them / thynkyng he hath perfectly and iustly conceaued them / Wherof are growen infynite sectes ande herespes 2. Cor. 8. In steade of that / if they had beē good ād true diuines ād had had the spirite of Gods gyfte / they had vnderstāde thē in treuth and verité / wherof followeth none other but vnion of faith both in spyryte and charité Many also beleuing by the studie of the holy scriptures / to attayne true Theologye and parfect knowledge of God ande consequently the chefe felycyté possyble to the lyuing man / haue geuen them selues to studye the scriptures / and walkinge by them to ioyne to the supreme faelicité of Gods knowledge / because they wanted the spirite / they neyther can arryve at the true ande lyvely lyght / taste and spirituall vnderstanding of God nor yet to the true felicité Wher of it groweth that they fall to the botome of infidelyté / in suche wise / that they beleue that there is none other light / faith or diuinité then that their barreine and deade opinion / nor other felyeiré then that theyr myserye / and so / seming to have attained the heigth of vertues / before they have ones tasted of them / they disprayse them These and soche other inconveniences are growen ande continual lye growe through them that knowe not how they ought to vse the holy scriptures in soche wise / that by theyr default / ande not of the scriptures / they have perchaūce done hurte to the worlde But for that we ought not to cōdempne the letters as many have done but the men that knowe not to vse them as they shulde be vsed to the honour of God To whome be all honour ād glory by our sauiour Iesu christ Sermon vj. If to bee good diuines it behoue vs to haue the humaine sciences or not THere be many that thinke it is not possyble to attaine the perfection of Theologie / if fyrst a man learne not Grāmer / Dialec ica / Philosophie and metaphisica / Yea Scotus Thomas bonauenture ande soche other I confesse my selfe to haue been in that errour and therfore am nowe moued to compassion of them that rest blinded withall If it were as they saye / we shulde be moost bounden vnto the inuentours of those sciences / syns that by them we maye be good diuines / ād without thē not And then I praye you if they happened to perish or those aucthours to be lost shulde it not followe that also the worlde shuld lacke diuinité And lykewyse if the learned men in those sciences be onely the good diuins and consequently Sainctes the contrary wherof is clerely seen then myght well the symple ande vnlearned people despaire of all ghoostly health / and the true and necessarie diuinité hange vppon humaine sciences So by that reason it shulde behoue vs to saye that the Apostles and in maner all the sainctes / Yea and the blessed virgin Marie weare not good diuines / notwithstanding that they haue taught others No nor Christ neuer learned those humayne sciences / and yet was he the moost excellent diuine Iohan. 7. Therfore we must knowe that one humaine science leadeth vs to clyme to an other / moche vnworthie of the name of Theologie or diuinité / but rather to be called Metaphisica / the which neither hath nor geveth so moch light of God as can suffyse to our saluacion / being a knowledge / that by force of mannes witte / eliming the degrees of humaine reason / maye be attained Where as the true ande supernaturall Theologie or diuinité is a science of the spirite / a gifte ande light that by grace cōmeth from God aboue / in soche wise / that not he that hathe the pregnaūt witte / hath moost studied and is best learned / is greatest diuine / but he that hath faith / liuely light and vnderstanding of God / that lyueth better and more christianly Ephe. 2. And because faith is a gifte of God / and the true diuinite a supernaturall light / not attaynable or can not be attained of vs / but gyuen of God to hys Electe Therfore euerie symple Yoeote and ignoraunt of the humaine sciēces / maie by the grace of god / sodenly become a parfect diuine and christian / as in the actes of the Apostles it is redde of the Eunucho Act. 8. It is possyble thē / that a simple olde womā maye haue more of the true Theologie or diuinité / then all the learned men of the worlde For the humaine sciences do fyll our myndes of smoake and pryde / ād occupie them in soche wise that distracte with Marta they be not attentiue with Marie to receaue the knowledge of God It is seen by experience that rather and more lightly the symple haue accepted the Gospell thē the learned mē of the worlde Yea where the symple / the ydeotes / the litle children ande the Samaritanes magnified Christ / the learned scribes and Phariseis persecuted him euen to the death of the crosse Ande whan the worlde conuerteth / seldome the learned men come to the fayth / but haue been euer the laste There coulde none entre into Sancta Sanctorum by tholde lawe / but the hygh Bysshop But Christe dying on the crosse / hath ouerthrowen the vaile of the temple / so that the resplēdent treasures of Gods wisdome hidde ī christ Col. 2. are manifested so openly / that the symple and ydeotes / yea the publicanes ād comune women haue vnderstanded them Wherof Dauid speaketh saying Thy wordes be open / they lyghten ād giue vnderstanding to the litleones Psal 118. That highe and diuine wisdome is become so lowe ād opē in Christ / that euery symple maye vnderstande For that Christ is not come as an humaine man to teache vs letters but is diuinely ād spiritually descēded to kindle the spirite / light charite and grace in the hartes of his electe / ande so hath he made them to vnderstand / euen to the Children whiche magnifie hym / saying Blessed is he that is come in the name of the lorde Math. 21. And Christ reproued his Apostles when they letted the Childeren of comming to him / though nowe their be many that wil Luk. 18. not allowe the holie scriptures to be had in the vulgare tongue / nor redde and declared to the simple / as if they coulde not vnderstand them / nor were not bounde to knowe that which is conteined in them And yet it is certeine / they conteine none other but proffytable and necessary thinges to the health / and that being of the holyghoost / those diuine verities be in maner so expressed / that in what tongue soeuer it be written / so it be truly declared / ād with pure harte hearde and vnderstande / they must nedes edifie without offendig Christe thanking his father / sayde vnto hym Wath 11. I praise the father and lorde of heauen and earth that thou hast hidde these thinges from the wyse and prudent / ande opened thē vnto babes / not for that they haue studied / but because it hath so pleased the. Ieremy 3. In this is fulfilled that that God promised by his prophet Ieremie / that euen to the least of all they shulde knowe Nowe beholde if they be blind or not / that wyll buylde the true Theologie vppon Philosophie / and vppon the humaine sciēces where as christ is the true fondaciō / and vppon him it behoueth to buylde / not woode strawe or haye / but syluer golde ād pretious stones / that is to saie / not the inuencions of mā / but the onely true reuelacions of God Sainet Iohan Baptist / and not Aristotle / was the precursor or forerūner of Chryst It is not possyble with the light of a litle burning candell to augment the great light of the Sonne ād lykewise Christ can not be clarified by the humayne sciences Iohn 5. He him selfe saith that he hath taken his beaulte / not of men but of his father / who saide vnto hi. Iohn 13. And the I haue glorified / and the I shall glorifie And wilt thou then that Chryst / which is the light of the world / shulde haue node of the light of Aristotle Iohan. 1. That theyr drye / colde and dead Theologie serueth to make them proude / to presume of them selues / to contende and to deceaue the blinde ignoraunt people with persuading them falsely to repute them for diuines / yea ād to begile them selues / that albeit that they be darkenes in dede / yet they thinke them selues to be the light of the worlde / ande therfore humble not theyr hartes to praie vnto God to giue them light I wyll not saye that we cā not serue our selues of all the humaine sciences in the honour of God / yea and of our synnes / in asmoch as of them we maye take occasyon of vertue But I saye in dede that they be not necessarie to make vs good diuines For to that it behoueth a supernaturall lyght of God / with clennes and purité of harte And this light we ought euermore to demaunde of God with feruent prayer / we ought also to seke the hearing of Gods worde / and with humilité to exercise our selues in studying the holy scriptures / to the intent / that as true ād good diuines / we maye rendre vnto God all honour and glorie by our sauiour Iesu Christ Amen Finis